Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Paisano's Pizza





People have been asking me where Paisano’s Pizza is. I guess I mentioned it somewhere and now everyone wants to know where to find it. There are three or four in Hong Kong and they’re talking about opening two more – Stanley Market and Causeway Bay. Those are not open yet as far as I know.

There’s one at Wan Chai on the corner of Thomson Road and O’Brien. It’s closest to exit A5, but if you get off there, you’re on one of those overhead pedestrian walkways and you can’t see it with all the buildings and trees. If you keep walking, you’ll miss it. You have to immediately go down, even though you just went up from the MTR. Once you’re at ground level, turn left and it’s right in front of you. A better way if you don’t know the area is exit A3. Turn left on O’Brien as soon as you exit the station. That’s the much smaller of the only two streets you can see from the exit. If you walk into traffic and large buses, that’s Johnston Road. Don’t go that way. But if you do, keep going straight and you’ll hit Tai Yuen Shopping Street, at the far end of which is a decent bakery. Otherwise, once you’re on O’Brien, you’ll see Paisano’s half a block straight in front of you. It’s right there out in the open. You don’t have to go into any other buildings to find it.

There’s one at Tsim Sha Tsui on Granville Road in The One department store, not even a block from Nathan Road. The One starts on Nathan. From exit B2, make a u-turn toward the big mosque, turn right on Nathan, which is the first street a few feet away, and another right on Granville.

There’s one in Soho on Hollywood Road about two blocks from Pizza Express, just under the “longest escalator in the world”. It’s really a few escalators. You can’t get to it from the escalators, but it’s an easy walk from the Central MTR exit D2. Just turn left from the station, cross Queen's Road while keeping straight on D’Aguilar for two blocks, turn right on Wellington Street and walk uphill for one block, turn left onto the alleyway. I don’t know if it has a name, but that intersection has four options – two proper streets and two staired alleys. The stairs going downhill might look more inviting, but that’s the wrong way. After a full block up the stairs, turn right on Hollywood Road. You’ll see the escalators in front of you. Paisano’s is just before that. You could take any number of alternate streets to get there, but it’s uphill from the station no matter what you do.

From the Sheung Wan station exit E2, turn left and cut through the Millennium Plaza – with the fancy staircase. On the other side of the fountain, cross Queen’s Road and turn left on Wellington Street, walk uphill for a full block, keep walking for another two blocks downhill – past Pizza Express, turn right, uphill, on Cochrane Street – directly under the escalators, walk uphill for a block, cross Lyndhurst Terrace and keep going straight/uphill/under the escalators until you hit the next street. That’s Hollywood Road. Paisano’s is to your immediate left.

I’ve heard there’s one in Discovery Bay. It’s supposed to be really close to Disneyland, but I’ve never seen it.


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